- Docente: Laura Bottazzi
- Credits: 3
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Economic Policy (cod. 8420)
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to extract information and data from the web
Course contents
This seminar introduces the main concepts of a particular programming language, i.e. Python, and discusses some tools for extracting, collecting, and analysing data contained in Web pages. In particular, the Web architecture and the main Web technologies (e.g. HTML) will be presented, as well as the standard languages for browsing the structure of pages, such as DOM and XPath. The second part of the seminar will be about Scrapy, a Python framework for scraping data from websites, in which real case scenarios will be discussed.
Readings/Bibliography
Study material will be provided by the professors. Students will need to download the Python software.
Teaching methods
Teaching in class and exercises in class and at home
Assessment methods
final exam in class
Teaching tools
slides
Office hours
See the website of Laura Bottazzi